New Media Vs Old Media

[Hilary Cooke]

With the availability of New Media products via the Web, Telephone, and Digital TV, and the easy access for anybody with a camera and computer/software or camera-phone to create New Media for the masses on the WWWeb / Social Networking sites. Do you think that the Old Media, Published Press, Local & National Newspapers are being squeezed out of the market place ?

[Hilary Cooke]

New Media Landscape
Reply from Dr Trudy Barber
I suggest that there will be some fairly drastic changes within the 'New Media' landscape. For example quite a few magazines and journals are now going purely online as opposed to creating a paper artefact.. Converging media tools are going to create new platforms for user generated content (such as LLTV for example) and change the way we view/participate/contribute/generate media content. In the future.. we won't be paying for our 'Television Licence'. I suggest that we will pay for a 'viewing license' in the UK.. If this becomes fact.. what will happen to the BBC? The BBC has already announced the scaling down of their operations. Are they preparing for this New Media landscape...?

See the link below which puts things in persepctive..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Cheers to all at LLTV!!
Trudy.

[Hilary Cooke]

The Machine is Us/ing Us
Hi Trudy – I followed your link to You Tube, and the video ‘The Machine is Us/ing Us’ made by Prof Mike Wesch, Kansas State University, who is currently working on the ethnography of YouTube. http://mediatedcultures.net/

There are other interesting videos made by his group who are investigating how New Media, in the form of You Tube, is forming a new world wide community, generating communications via video networks.

The success of You Tube has shown how easy access to create and publish New Media, along with Social Networking, can build new communities who can generate a vast content of material which can be accessed by a wider group of people.

This ability to generate and grow communities, gives a powerful tool to those who make new media. New Media can be used by any group to educate/entertain/advertise on a world wide scale. It also gives local groups/communities/businesses access to use this powerful communication tool, in a way that Old Media could not fulfil.

LlTV is here to help these local groups/communities/businesses to develop those communities and gain access to Local TV.

Regards Hilary

[Hilary Cooke]

This is an excerpt from Knowledge for the Digital Economy site.
Link - http://69.89.31.94/~nmkcouk/2007/11/04/uk-media-consumption-report/

UK Media Consumption Report
A new independent report commissioned by financial service company Zurich has identified a number of key trends that are set to radically alter the way in which the media is consumed by the UK population

Gift economy

As camera enabled mobile phones, faster internet connections and more user friendly tools become widely available, the age of user generated content is well and truly mainstream. Citizen journalism, used extensively by major news organisations is becoming more than just a fad, with the likes of Channel 5 news now offering £100 for public footage, and sites such as Mr Paparazzi offering payment for photos.

There are various other means of generated income from the web aimed particularly at the general public. Sites such as Zubka pay users for referrals to jobs and blogging remains a potential revenue stream for many.

The UK media scene is creating waves throughout the world and the ways in which we consume it are changing. When once we would fit our lives around the media, advances in technology and changes in our regular working day have meant that, in order to survive, the media now has to revolve around us.
Copyright © 2007 by New Media Knowledge

[Keith Davis]

Hi Hilary,

Just reading your post there on A Media Viewing Licence, I cant see that happening, especially not as the web grows so fast and many new websites are open social and free.
Any licence charged for viewing a TV set I think is ridiculous in this age of fast changing technology. I rarely view TV now where once I used to and thats because of the web. I spend more time on the web looking for information, music, even videos that I choose and that I think are funny, and not forced to watch what the TV producer thinks is funny : )
I have created sites that have always been free to use, that was one of the main points in my business plan way back in 1999. There are a thousand ways in which the BBC can bring in revenue, or any other channel, I dont think either that because we pay for it we are getting what we want, rather just the same as we'd get if we had ads on there!

Still with sites like yours springing up I hope this means we will be enjoying some fantastic "local" programmes and perhaps there's an opening for a TV remote control widget? : )

Cheers
Keith

[Hilary Cooke]

Take a look at the 'Future History' post at the bottom of our main page. This is one view of the future from http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/ (Copyright © Making I.T. Happen 2008 ). What are your views on this?

Note! to see the video correctly you need to click full screen option (On the control bar, box on the right, You can then escape back to the main page if you wish)

[SUSSEX VISIONS TELEVISION]

Hi Hillary:

What we think at Sussex Visions Television, is that for too long now, the established tv channels have not done justice to the people of the south of London.

We are based in Crawley, and we have no choice but to view the london segments of thier news packages.

That is why we have launched out on this ambitius project to creat from the ground up a cable and internet based tv staion to focus on the news, current affairs, sports entertainment, culture and human intersts stories of our immediate neighbours.

We belive that individuals like you and your members can collaborate with us on this venture, since we realize that most seem to hail from Poertsmouth.

As for your question, Do you think that old media are being squeezed out of the mrket place., this is unlikely. the newspaper, is still the most available outlet for most people, and because the pages last longer than the fleeting images of the tv screen, it is possile to hold on to a news story that really matters for a much more longer time.

what  I hink is good with the new edia, is how technology has made itpossible for amatuers to launch out into the exciting world of broadcasting, podcasting, home msic studios and even self produced books. Cutting out the need to outlay large volumes of cash to see your creations given life and fly on into the conciousness of the public.

Social networking sites like youtube, ning, myspace, reverbnation, soundclick etc all have given ambitious individuals, with some knowledge of computers and the internet, a play ground, where one increase ones knowledge while havng fun, and even make some mony for ones self.

For this reason we say, let the pencil live along side the pen, and the type writer live along side the computer; let the match sell on the same shelf as the lighter and let us bring back the chalk and slate.

We should never lose sight of our history, as march boldly onto an uncertain future.

Anything, and everything is possible.

SUSSEX VISIONS TELEVISON

PimpMyProfile

[Keith Davis]

PIMP MY MEDIA!

That's exactly what this site and many others are doing!
The whole basis of this site and many others in media is the fact that "Amateur" although I think we and this site are no amateurs, are forcing the mainstream media to think again.

Technology has made it possible for our creative talents to shine through and be a force for change..... rock on and look forward to the new internet channels.

Keith

[Hilary Cooke]

New Media - is a growing force and I agree with Keith, that it is the development of social networks that is driving change in the media industry. Be it music downloads to your MP3 Player or streaming video to you TV, these new networks are pioneering the future of media delivery. Although we will still have access to recorded music and print purchased in a hardcopy format, it will be the e-copy formats that cannot be controlled by the large media corporations that will be delivering the newest original content to the marketplace.

Hilary